The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
Subtitle: Essays in the Social History of Rural America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 30, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780807841396
Subjects: American history; United States - General; Social conditions; History - General History; History; United States; History: American; USA; Sociology - Rural; General; History-General; Social Science / Sociology / Rural; rural studies; labor studies; social history; labor systems; Great Transformation; Rural conditions; Sociology, Rural; To 1865
First sentence: In the late summer of 1839, Henry David Thoreau committed to his notebook a half-dozen lyrical pages on the coming of factories to the New England countryside.